...There are many policy issues that I feel passionate about, but I chose to focus on the free college proposal. Although this has not gotten approved yet, there are many questions and potential problems surrounding this controversial piece of legislation. If I were in the position to vote, I would not be in favor of Governor Raimondo’s proposal. First, it would cost taxpayers a very large amount of money to fund this program. While it is a great idea in theory to support those who would not have an opportunity to attend college otherwise, lower and middle-class citizens would also have to pay money for the children in families with large amounts of wealth and income. Next, the overall value of a college degree will decrease if there is a significant...
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...certain instance, the right to get a free education after high school. But students rushing to adopt surveillance programs might not be adequately weighing the effect such programs can have on student's morale. The government must consider the possibility that students will perceive the program which can help students massively. On the one hand, free community college gives the student a powerful tool which is education to carry out their jobs; on the other hand, the same program may also attempt to constant temptations to avoid work and it will likely cause laziness among students and will consume up their academic motivation. Sometimes government funding in education can be a waste if students do not cherish their hard-won education opportunity. “Only 41...
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...Prejudice Is A Problem! Prejudice can be a very hurtful thing for a lot of people. The world as a whole has been trying to remove it best we can but it still exists. But that does not mean we should give up now. Prejudice can be stopped if you put some effort into it. Technically prejudice is an opinion based off of little or no knowledge, but sometimes it is a lot more than that. For example it was prejudice that starter The Civil War! The north wanted to treat blacks like normal people but the south wanted to be prejudice against the blacks and have them as slaves. This is an extreme example but it is still prejudice. Another extreme example would be Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Another definition of Prejudice is to be biased, Hitler was not only being biased he also made an opinion based off of little or no knowledge, making him prejudice. Those are some of the best extreme examples of prejudice. Prejudice only exists for one main reason, the people who are prejudice. When they are prejudice it shows other people a completely false lesson that prejudice is okay and that you can be prejudice. If everyone stopped being prejudice than there would be no more prejudice in the world. As explained by the examples in the last paragraph sometimes someone being prejudice can be a huge problem. Most of the time prejudice is not that extreme but there are many reasons why prejudice people are prejudice. Sometimes it's something someone did to them, because they were raised prejudice,...
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...and dribbling instead of actually playing the sport. There are many aspects to the physics of basketball. I have five aspects I would like to discuss. The shot, shooting a free throw, the spin, dribbling, and passing. First I would like to talk about the game of basketball all around. Basketball was created James Naismith in 1891. Basketball is a team sport that requires two teams of five players that try to score by shooting a round ball through a hoop ten feet high. The game is played on a rectangular-shaped floor, this floor...
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...College Campus Rumpus College is supposed to be a place for people to mature and develop their senses and character; it should be a prominent place for people to exchange ideas and differing opinions. However movements on college campuses across America have been stifling free expression and have gone so far as to protest and shut down people who have spoken out against their suppression of free speech. Movements such as Black Lives Matter liken themselves to being proponents of good seeking to ameliorate a lack of diversity based on superficial qualities such as the color of a person’s skin, instead of promoting a range of different ideas. Many colleges across the country have bent over backwards in an effort to oblige the incessant droning...
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...“The Carbonaro Effect” is a hidden camera television show where a magician, Michel Carbonaro, tricks unsuspecting, ordinary people. All of his performances occur in ordinary locations such as in stores, offices, or schools, and the people Carbonaro tricks are not aware that he is a magician. Carbonaro’s physics- and logic defying illusions produce hilarious reactions from his gullible targets. While Carbonaro’s illusions are certainly entertaining, I feel there is a damper on his magic since I am aware that I am only seeing illusions. However, much of the entertainment of the show comes from the incredulous reactions of subjects as they stand there wide eyed, and open mouthed, taking in the impossible scene they have just witnessed. As I watch...
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...On January 8, President Obama announced America’s College Promise, a lofty proposal to make two years of community college free for all students who attend school at least half-time and maintain a 2.5 GPA. If passed in congress, the proposal would save nine million students an average of $3,800 per year, and which equates to a national investment of 60 billion dollars investment over the next ten years. During his announcement at a community college in Knoxville, Tennessee, Obama said he wanted to, “…bring down the cost of community college tuition. I want to bring it down to zero. … Community college should be free for those who are willing to work for it, because in America, quality education cannot be a privilege reserved for a few” (America’s College Promise Speech). In other words, Obama...
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...Community College should be free is setting beneficial goals that has an effect in the favor of the students attending Community College and the public as a whole. The main, obvious goal would be for Community College to be free, opening a door for people to educate themselves with no major cost. If Community College was to be free, the economy would greatly prosper because of the availability of well-educated workers, which would lead to advancements such as advanced technology. Free Community College would mean that those who could previously not afford to pay for the expenses needed for Community College would not have to worry. This means that they can gain a proper education and secure a better job, thus...
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...Influence Me Have you ever met someone who has influenced you in every aspect, whether you fully realized? Sometimes it takes an assignment such as this to put into perspective who and what drives you. My influence and inspiration is my husband, William. When you're married, sometimes you forget to acknowledge all of the other persons traits and characteristics that inspire you in some way or just in general. I have known this amazing man for four years and married for one so far, but it only took a few chats here and there as my neighbor to figure out that he was someone whether a friend or more, would bring change for me as a person and my future days. What I Like About You Everyone experiences their own difficulties in life, but I believe it is worth the journey if you learn something from the lesson, whether it's a good or bad journey. In my eyes, this man has learned so much about himself and the world with every uphill and downhill battle without allowing the ugliness of the world to make his heart cold. I have always struggled with seeing the light at the end of the tunnel through the challenges I myself have faced, but Will has shown me there is always a bright side. Through his first divorce, he received two beautiful boys out of it. He had to face being alone, the feeling of failing the promise he made to be a whole with another person and also failing his boys to keep their family together. I met this man a few months after his divorce, even then I could tell he...
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...Right now, there’s a big debate whether or not community college should be free. Some say it should under certain requirements, some say it shouldn't no matter what. It's believed that if college is free, it can help give people a boost on striving for a degree. It's hoped that more people enroll to college to increase the amount of people with degrees. I think the whole situation is pretty interesting, therefore I believe that community college shouldn’t be free because there's already a way in which someone doesn't have to pay for tuition, the pell grants basically covers your tuition and more, and there’s going to be a lot of competition because students varying from low income to upper & middle class. Making college free sounds like a good idea, who wouldn't want to go to college and pay nothing? The idea can benefit a lot of people, but there's no need for it to be free because according to Felipe Bezerra, a student at Rio Hondo College, “about half of the state's community college students qualify for those waivers.” It wouldn't really make a difference to many students because a lot of them are going to have their tuition covered by fee waivers. They're going to realize that they went through some hassle to not pay for tuition, when at the end, it ended up being...
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...Community college should not be free because there's a higher chance that students will drop out, students with a higher GPA will apply to community college leaving the average students without a spot, and it wouldn’t be fair for those students who are going to a four year college and have to pay when at community college it is free. Community college is already cheap and it gives low income families an opportunity to attend college. It already offers a free year and it is not fair for those who want to get a real college life experience. Community college is different from a four year college because it is cheaper and is only for two years. When speaking about cheaper, it is cheaper by hundreds of dollars. In the article “Should community college be free?” written by Joanne Jacobs published on February 23, 2015 on US News and World Report claims that “community college tuition already is free...
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...Harvard. Harvard. Harvard. Everyday the name of the college still prances around in my mind like a rabbit. The thought of going to one of the highest ranked school in the nation always excites me. My parents would be so proud of me. Pursuing my dream and becoming an astronomer -- or even better, an astronaut--is the best thing I could ever achieve for myself. It can only happen, however, if you have near perfect grades, and that’s exactly what I’m shooting for. Though in my younger years, I could care less about school. As a young child, school was simple, bland, and somewhat repetitive. I wasn’t too concerned about my grades. Why would I be? All you had to do was color and do times tables. It was as easy as cutting a cake! Now you need to know how to composite functions, or remember that the lithosphere comes before the asthenosphere. We might as well study brain surgery next! Back in my early elementary days, I remember always getting A’s and B’s, and I was proud of that! I was the queen in my own eyes....
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...Going to college is one of the gateways to a better life. However, the tuition for college is immensely higher than the average American's income. This leads many to not go after their dreams. On the other hand, the young adults that do go to college end up in an enormous amount of debt. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, advocates that colleges should be free for everyone. This would theoretically push a lot of young adults into going to college. Although this proposal sounds perfect there are some hindrances to this. Hence, why lawmakers should not make college free of charge since there is not enough money to fund this and there are ways in which the government can help young adults into college. To begin with, the legislators shouldn’t make college tuition free because the government cannot afford the amount of money it would cost. America spends a lot of money on many goods, military and other things; that making college free is not an option. The government in its current state is in debt, and this proposal would push America into a bigger amount of debt. The proposal would “cost the...
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...Think INSIDE The Box College was one of the best choices I could have ever made. I went to the community college as a desperately needed fresh start. After being homeless from a bad relationship my family rescued me and brought me here to Washington. The whole abusive relationship had made me smaller. I felt like a shell of the girl I used to be. No more bright and carefree days, only darkness filled with anxiety and trust issues. It was hard waking up in the morning from the crippling depression and I had to remind myself each day to just breathe. I couldn’t believe I was so depressed I couldn’t remember to breathe... That was until I met Kevin. I first saw Kevin when I attended a horse show with my mom. It’s a passion we both have and she had thought bringing me with her would lighten me up a bit. My hopes were not high. During the...
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...As a teenager, it is way too soon to decide on a major that will determine the rest of my life. Lucky for me, I had the privilege to take a variety of different classes during my high school career to help me discover my college major and form new goals. Classes like weight training, chemistry, band, creative writing, and American politics never truly sparked a flame in my heart. But, when I took the computer programming class my senior year, I finally knew. Everything escalated from that semester on. I built my own computer, learned how to build a website, and even took on an intermediate programming class. Without these variety of classes, I may have never found my passion for computers. Having the opportunity of taking various classes in different fields allowed me to shape my own goals and let me experience the world in a different perspective....
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